Atlas of the Irish Revolution

This is a gorgeous book in every way, with the highest possible production values, scholarship of the highest order and a grandeur and breadth of vision and coverage that no previous publication can match. It would be invidious to single out names in such a galaxy of distinguished contributors, but suffice to say that very many of the significant scholars in the field, across a range of disciplines, can be found in this volume … This is a book to savour and to dip into again and again; you will not read it in one sitting. It truly reflects many voices and many perspectives while remaining committed to the highest standards of scholarship. It is, in the best sense, an accessible, balanced and eminently readable popular volume which has already broken a number of records in Ireland itself as a best-selling academic book. ~Piaras Mac ÉinrÍ, Irish Literary Supplement, 2018

The 1916 centenary celebrations will be a big talking point throughout next year's cultural calendar. One of the biggest books in the field of history will likely be Cork University Press's mammoth Atlas of the Irish Revolution (May), edited by John Crowley, Donal O Drisceoil and Mike Murphy, which aims to do for the revolutionary period what the award-winning Atlas of the Great Irish Famine did for the second half of the 19th century. It will combine cutting-edge "big issue" research with stories of people, provinces and parishes ~Arminta Wallace, The Irish Times

This is a sumptuously comprehensive visual and written exploration of the contexts, progress and legacies of the Irish revolution. On top of a wide-ranging array of essays focussing on resistance to the union with Great Britain reaching back into the nineteenth century, there are analyses of the networks of political, social and cultural organisations throughout Ireland, Britain and the United States in the early twentieth century; case studies of national and local political and military developments in the years leading up to and following the Rising; and reflections on the new Ireland after the wars – its politics and approaches to commemoration. The Atlas itself is a fitting monument commemorating this time - lavishly illustrated with original maps, graphics and historic photographs, as well as reproductions of rarely-seen documents from the time. The Atlas of the Irish Revolution ranks as an important landmark survey of the momentous developments in Ireland during the opening decades of the twentieth century that will have wide appeal to a specialist and popular readership. Emeritus Professor attached to the Geography Department in the National University of Ireland, Maynooth ~Professor Patrick J Duffy NUI Maynooth

Perhaps the most ambitious of the highly original Atlas series from Cork University Press. The latest scholarship – and from many diverse viewpoints – places the Irish revolution in its international context. Accessible, readable and brilliantly produced with telling use of photographs and maps, few readers will finish this book without fresh understandings of the forces which shaped modern Ireland – outstanding. ~Dr John Bowman, Historian & Broadcaster

Written by the leading historians, geographers and literary scholars of the Irish revolutionary period, this work, with its authoritative texts, superb photographs, informative maps and its reproduction of key documents, promises to be the outstanding publication of the ‘decade of commemorations - Thomas Bartlett is the former Chair in Irish History at the University of Aberdeen ~Professor Thomas Bartlett

This volume makes an important and innovative contribution to our understanding of the Irish Revolution. Unusually broad and genuinely interdisciplinary, it combines a number of approaches to produce fascinating insights into this formative period of Irish history. Analysis of the comprehensive political and social changes which shaped modern Ireland is balanced with close studies of the often unspectacular, local and everyday aspects of ordinary Irish life. The result is a rich and evocative telling of many of the stories which contributed to the evolution of modern Ireland. Senia Pašeta, Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford . ~Professor Senia Pašeta

The book of the year has just been published. President Higgins has described the Atlas of the Irish Revolution as a "scholarly masterpiece”. Published by Cork University Press, it weighs in at 5kg, with just under 1000 pages, 364 maps, more than 700 beautiful illustrations and 20 tables. It is a breath-taking volume that will endure for centuries. I am proud to have been asked to write the chapter on the child casualties of the Easter Rising. Check it out at your local bookshop. I promise it will be a revelation. – Joe Duffy RTE Irish Mail on Sunday ~Joe Duffy RTE

The Atlas of the Irish Revolution, a 5kg 984 page tome from Cork University Press that looks to become another benchmark reference, like their 2012 Atlas of the Great Irish Famine which sold over 20 000 copies. Yet another exhilarating CUP Gesamtkunstwerk of historical geography ~Mic Moroney, Irish Arts Review

By all and any standards, this is a most impressive work. Following the atlas of the Irish Famine, this is highly significant as an account of the Revolution itself and as a work of cartographic history. It is tremendously helpful and stimulating for academics, and accessible for students and others. In a historiographical field marred, and sometimes characterized, by sectarianism and mythmaking, it is rewarding to see this work produced as a collection by over 100 scholars. The 364 maps, all original, range widely in order to provide a range of spatial perspectives, from the national to the street level. That is very impressive and offers work of great originality. The large number of images – over 700 illustrations – is also highly instructive. Furthermore, in terms of value for money, this is excellent, indeed outstanding. ~Jeremy Black, Journal of European Studies